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Facial Hair and Computer Languages

Posted by kdawson on from the brother-is-an-hairy-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tamir Khason from Israel has blogged about the direct connection between the amount of facial hair and the success of computer languages. Very funny, and it's the truth."

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  1. Oh the memories by oldwindways · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This reminds me of one of my third grade teachers. His class motto was "people with beards are great".

    I can't help but think that he was on to something.

    Actually, it also brings to mind a theme from Cryptonomicon, where programmers are referred to as Dwarves, "stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent a lot of time in the dark hammering out beautiful things." I don't think its a coincidence that beards go along with the territory.

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    "Si vis pacem para bellum" -Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
  2. Re:Ahh, but he did! by value_added · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Speaking of being beardless and goofy looking, there was scene in one of the Planet of the Apes movies (don't ask why I remember) where one of the chimps (the older female) watched while Charlton Heston, using something resembling a broken clam shell, shaved off his beard.

    "Why are you scraping the hair from your face?", she asked. "It makes you seem ... somehow ... less intelligent."